J Gabriel Gates’ upcoming novel Blood Zero Sky has been picking up some steam since our review last month.  The book was recently featured in Shelf Awareness Pro’s “Author Buzz.”  Recently Gates took the time to sit down and answer a few questions for us.. Blind Scribblings and Incoherent Grunts:  What was your inspiration for [...]

Last week in the midst of a nice lull, in an otherwise unpredictable day, the new coworker I was helping train turned to me and asked if I have a zombie survival/escape plan.  As a nerk (that’s geek and nerd all in one) this question is not completely weird to me.  As a victim’s advocate [...]

The South always gets such a bad wrap in entertainment. It specifically gets a bad wrap on television and reality television is the worst offender. I knew this when I sat down to watch TLC’s latest disaster of a television show, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.  I’m a proud Southern girl, but even I didn’t [...]

I read a lot. It’s my first and favorite hobby, but I love sharing what I read almost as much as I enjoy the act of getting lost in a book or an article. When I was a kid I used to come up and try to share the new knowledge I would get from [...]

People who know me outside of the information super-highway we now call the internet, know a few big things about me.  The first is that I am a huge fan of coffee. The second is that I am a huge fan of Batman, especially Christopher Nolan’s Batman.  I based an assignment I was working on [...]

I like to think of myself as a dystopian fiction connoisseur.  If it’s got a totalitarian regime, oppression of ideas, has been called Orwellian, and/or involves some variation of an uprising I have either read it, have it on my to-read pile or want you to tell me about it right damn now so I [...]

When The Avengers hit movie theaters this summer I, like pretty much every comic book enthusiast in the country, lined up to see it. I certainly wasn’t disappointed with the movie on the whole.  It was a lot of fun and there was never a moment where I wasn’t entertained (especially by the Hulk, not [...]